As a unit of the 7th Cavalry Brigade, 3rd Cavalry Division, it will have taken part in the following battles and engagements.

1917

BATTLES OF ARRAS

09 to 12 April

First Battle of the Scarpe [Cav. Corps, Third Army].

10 and 11 April

Attack of Monchy le Preux.

1918

21 to 27 March and 01 to 05 April

BATTLES OF THE SOMME

21 to 23 March

Battle of St. Quentin [III. Corps, Fifth Army].

24 and 25 March

Actions at the Somme Crossings [XVIII. Corps, Fifth Army].

04 and 05 April

Battle of the Avre [XIX. Corps, Fourth Army].

THE ADVANCE TO VICTORY

08 to 11 August

Battle of Amiens

BATTLES OF THE HINDENBURG LINE

08 and 09 October

Battle of Cambrai [Cav. Corps, Fourth Army].

09 to 12 October

The Pursuit to the Selle [Cav. Corps, Third and Fourth Armies].

09 to 11 November

THE FINAL ADVANCE IN FLANDERS [Cav. Corps, Second Army].

On the 11th November, the leading troops of the 3rd Cavalry Division had reached the line of the Dendre at Leuze and Lessines. That night the division was withdrawn to the east of the Schelde near Tournai. Instructions were received on the 15th that the 3rd Cavalry Division (moving on the left of the front allotted to the Cavalry Corps) would cover the advance of the Second Army. On the 17th, the division moved forward, on the 21st its headquarters were established at Waterloo, and the 6th Brigade (in which was the 1/Royal Dragoons) marched across the old battlefield. Transport difficulties prevented more than one cavalry division accompanying the Second Army, so the 3rd Cavalry Division remained to pass the winter in Belgium.

Beginning in December, demobilization was gradually carried out. On the 31st March, 1919, the 3rd Cavalry Division ceased to exist, and its place was taken (for administrative purposes) by the 3rd Cavalry Division Cadre Brigade.

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